Just as many dining options across the Island are beginning to close up shop for the season, a new restaurant in the former David Ryan’s space on North Water street opened last month with every intention of serving the year-round population.

The goals for new Edgartown restaurant Eleven North are simple: keep it local, keep it fun and keep it open year-round.

With a “casual downstairs” and “a little more chic with more New York city and Miami” upstairs, the restaurant hopes to please a broad spectrum of patrons for both lunch and dinner.

As the Chilmark planning board continues to grapple with the question of how to regulate very large houses, the board looked to the town of Wellfleet this week as a possible model. At the planning board meeting Tuesday, a former member of the Wellfleet planning board gave strong words of encouragement to his counterparts in Chilmark.

The West Tisbury selectmen said this week they will move ahead with a comprehensive watershed study for the Mill Pond, putting the question of whether to dredge the historic pond on hold — at least for now.

The fate of the pond and whether to dredge it has been the subject of heated discussion in town for the past year.

In May, Richard (RJ) Cage and his two sons built a handicap accessible vegetable garden at the Farm Institute. They used old barn wood to create the raised bed, making sure it was tall enough for wheelchair users to be able to lean over and pick crops easily. Over the summer more than 10 participants from the Seven Hills Foundation, a year-round day program for adults with developmental disabilities, worked in the garden two to three times a week.

Vineyard House, the residential program for early substance abuse recovery, announced a $3 million capital campaign this week to build a new facility in Vineyard Haven.

Board president Mark Jenkins said the new facility — a campus-style complex located on Short Hill Road, off of Holmes Hole Road in Vineyard Haven — will enable the organization to address substance abuse in a fuller scope. Since its inception in 1997, Vineyard House, the only sober-living facility on the Island, has operated out of three separate houses staffed entirely by volunteers.

Sunday afternoon was the first time Colton Wiley of Keofauqua, Iowa had ever seen the ocean. Three months ago he was shot in the legs in Afghanistan, leaving the 19 year old wheelchair bound. Now, on a beautiful September evening on Menemsha Beach, he was watching his first sunset over the Atlantic Ocean. “It’s beautiful and completely eye opening,” he said later that night during dinner at the Beach Plum Inn. Mr. Wiley was one of 10 wounded and recovering soldiers who visited the Island this week for the fourth annual American Heroes Saltwater Challenge.